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But whether its authors be found in States or individuals, there is in it the same pernicious virus, which, breaking out first in South Carolina, inoculated Virginia, like the Rebellion itself.
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Sumner warns that the harmful ideas behind the Fugitive Slave Act spread from South Carolina to Virginia, similar to the rebellion.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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